HeyJaredAggressively Handmade
Musings about complicated childhoods, the joys and sorrows of aging, and the simple pleasures of daily life, wherever I may find them.
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Humility Block (opens the original)
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Trying new stuff has always been hard for me. (Though aging does seem to be making it a bit easier. How unexpected and lovely!) I dream of the day I can approach an unfamiliar activity with a true beginner’s mind. Immerse myself in the joy of the nowness of it, the pleasure of exploration. Unfortunately, not there. Yet.I’m still very much learning how to learn. So many things. How to grow houseplants (because I love them! why don’t they love me?). Or at least not kill them. How to Zumba during t
A Wee Book, Out in the World! (opens the original)
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Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve said I wanted to write a book someday. I wasn’t the kind of kid who automatically thought if I loved something, I’d be able to do it. Very much the opposite. Writers were purveyors of magic as far as I could see. (I still think this way. Don’t you?) Nothing about me was magical. But I wrote anyway because words rushed full force in a continual stream through my brain, and writing them down was the only relief. Learning to type was even better because my finge
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